Hi All,

My first post in these forums, I want know what kind of iPad I’ll need for skydemon to work? The one with cellular and WiFi or just cellular? Also when flying will I need internet access to my iPad when using skydemon?

During my PPL training I was taught to use chart and dead reckoning navigation, but now since I’ve passed my skills test I am looking to invest into sky demon for my navigation and situational awareness backed up by CAA 1:500:000 VFR chart.

Thanks for your input.

I have had full licenses for SkyDemon and for Foreflight. I am neither in Europe nor the U.S., so on neither package’s home turf. For me, SD wins hands down.

Foreflight is very much geared towards the fix wing guy flying as per flight plan, and with auto pilot. When everything is quiet up there and you have plenty of time, you can fiddle with the many minuscule bottoms of the Foreflight user interface

For hands-on, low level VFR flying SD is much more useable, and gives you much better situational awareness. Case in point is that Foreflight doesn’t even tell you FRQ *below* the TMA; it automatically assumes that you are *in* the TMA.

Also, Foreflight is overladen with features that mostly look good on paper. Like the quarter screen synthetic vision. If you rely on synthetic vision, it better be a fixture permanently installed in front of you, not something that goes away when you look up a runway direction, etc. As much as it is elegantly implemented in Foreflight, in real life it is just a gimmick.